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Did You Know?Early Florida State Parks Photographers 
Throughout FPS history photographs were needed to document park resources, scenery, visitation and construction and to promote parks. Our archives of thousands of photographs have documented parks through the last nearly 100 years. Two photographers, who were agency employees, created a large collection of images from the 1940s and 50s. Attached is an electronic exhibit of some of these images. The two photographers were William Z. Harmon and C. H. Schaeffer. Most of the originals of these images were large format negatives which created high quality prints. While not exactly Ansel Adams, I think that you will agree that these two photographers created images that truly captured the magic of The Real Florida. Willaim Z. Harmon William Z. Harmon was the hired as FPS Public Relations Director in 1946 and later transferred to Myakka River as park naturalist and photographer and took photographs for FPS until the mid-1950s. His photographs appeared in brochures, exhibits, newspapers and magazines. He later was the co-owner of The Conservatory School in Sarasota and was a well respected naturalist and teacher in the Sarasota area until his passing in 1974. C. H. Schaeffer C. H. Schaeffer was our first state park director, 1935-37. He was a forester by training. He later returned to the Florida Park Service in the 1950s to serve at Fort Pickens and as Chief of Education and Interpretation until his passing in 1959. Click Here to see more images by these wonderful photographers Fabulous Facts About Florida State Parks: 
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